The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-19

about tho head. arms and legs. and Ia,
screaming In IN Office across tho street
She was screaming with pain md calm,
for her little daughter Jennie. "Do some
thing TO stop the pain" sho yelled. "Oh
shall die" Mrs Mann Ia the daughter
OF Dr.. Strong, Of this city.
| William j. Mckee, OF New York, ant
William 7. Lamb, OF Now York, occupied
rooms on the fourth and third floors re-
spectively. Both were awakened by th,
glare and made their escape by means O
the flre.escape.
Mr.. Spencer, Of Syracuse, eccsped in
his night shirt. His hands, faca and neck
were terribly burned. IIe walked t
Johnson'A drug store and was treated iol
tho burns.
In front Of Dlngen Bros store lay F.
dead man covered with mattress. Ht
had black hair and full face which wa
covered with blood and could not he rec
ognizsd. He had jumped from window
At frat II was thought he was Supe.in
tendent Morelord, OF tho Michigan Gen
trail Railway, but hereford was afterwards
found. .g
Mark Osborne, day clerk and assistant
manager OF the hotel, Is missing. He SLEPT
on the south side. 1t Is believed he per.
iahed.
The last psruons taken alive from the
burning building were two domestcs who
We're rescued from the southern end oil
the fifth floor by brave liremen on tho ex-
tension ladder. Minnie Stone, u domestic,
declared that there was no one left on the
fifth floor when shs left It.
j. II. Van Buren,, OF Duukirk, was in an
inside room and unable to yet out. He
gave himself up for los. and went back to
hts bed to meet his fate. At the last min.
ute, however, the iremsn broke through
and carried him out.
One man hung outside OF the window
s'll for foaf minutes, while the fire burned
in his room. When reucued by the fire.
men he tainted.
Chief Hornung, OF the Gre department,
says: "The number OF paople rescued Is
about twenty or twenty-five. We did all
We could to rescue them. We got two
streams into the corridor OF the hotel, and
at that moment the flames were shooting
up. that Blk staircase and elevator way be.
yond the reach OF the hose. We tried to
play both streams upon the fire, but there
was 30 much screaming by the guests and
calls for help from windows that we
called off mont OF the men from the hose
and let the building 70 for awhile, giving
a!l our attention to the ladders. Damn
tho building l yelled; 'says the people,
and the boys helped man the ladders on
the outside, putting two onto Main street
aide and the short ones east. There was
need Of it, too. It was horrible sight to
SEQ them jumping from every side. The
cool headed ones were rescued all right,
but some would not wait"
A auocKISG DEATH.
James Mcclure, night engineer at the
postoilice, got into the hotel soon after the
fire broke. He saved man who was
coming down stairs in his night clothes,
and who was prostrated by fire and amoke.
After getting h'u, mt he returned and
tsit;, =. ieGrr, !. Cur: fac, 4 room OIL the
third floor, but she was lost in the fire,
Mcclure says: sit WAS terrible to hear
her cries. Fer some reason aho could not
open the door and l waa not able to break
It in. Finally l wss driven away by the
ire and smoke and had to leave her to
her fate. | could only tell from the voice,
but l suppose she was a young girl any,
whore from 10 to Is years or 30. She was
in room Oh the third floor facing on Main
street."
Fl. II. Humes, travelling agent for Irl-
bacher 4 Davis, occupied room on the
third floor. He WAS awakened by the
electric BELLS and after arousing other peo-
pie on the came floor, jumped through a
window to the kitchen roof. There every
thing was in flames. After bidding good
bye to esyeral others on the same roof, he
made rush for the Eagle street door, 20.
Ing through the kitchen akylight and out
Through the flames, and escaped. He left
i've persons on the kitchen roof, and
thinks they must all have persisted, as
they did not attempt to follow him through
the flames. II thought it was almost cer-
tain DEATH" he said, but 1t was certain
death to remain. One OF the men called
before jumping was tying his crayat, and
was angry with me for my intrusion till
told him the house was on fire. The man
then nsd through the window on to the
kitchen roof, with nothing on but his
shirt and cyavat." 'i ,SEj
MIR. Humes was in his shirt and was un-
injured save q few burns on his feet and
legs. ~''Ts't =" .-.si 2 ~
Mr.. Stafford, proprietor Of the hotel,
tells the following story: "Our room was
on the south end and we dropped down
on TO the roof Of the frame building. Ny
wife wanted me to 20 through the hall,
but I locked the door and put the key into
my pocket. Then | jumped as she sprang
into my arms. We were awakened by
tho electric bells and il they had not been
turned on promptly thore would have been
terrible loss OF life. The bells awakened
everybody in tho house. When got out
Of my room ia was useless to escape
through the hallway. think the loss OF
life is less than some estimates I have
heard. There are probably no more than
six persons dead" .
TIE NIGHT cLEgK's STORY. s-.
Vim. Fl. Alport, the night clcrk, says:
'The fire started in the cloak room under
the main stairway ct $3.50 o'clock. There
was nobody up but myssli, Joe, the night
porter, and Plummer, the bell boy. I
pulled all four Of the fire alarms on the
different floors, and the peopls' came fly:
ing down stairs in their night clothes. The
fire followed the elevator, and inside of
five minutes reached the top floor. l
rushed ont Of doors after doing all I
could."g. E't
Bell boy Piummar tells his experience
as follows: II was dusting the reading
flames coming up the stairway from the
basement. Mr.. Alport and turned
on the hose under the msin stairway.
We Strengthened the hose out and turned
the valve but the water would not run.
Then we gave the alarm. The watchman
and ! got plank aud broke in the Eagle
street entrance to the hotel. Then we got
the plank under the fire escape on Esp lie
street and We helpad people down. I
think there were about 81 guests in the
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